Fabio Carbone Q&A
Fabio Carbone had a mixed time in the final qualifying session for this weekend's Macau Grand Prix. The Brazilian found pace at exactly the right moment to claim pole, but then managed to damage his car in a heavy shunt moments afterwards.
Jonathan Noble found out how Carbone was feeling.
"Well I am happy. For the race it will be okay, my mechanics will do a good job and fix the damage no problem."
"I didn't think much about it. You just get in the car and go out and do your job. The car was really good from the beginning of practice, so I was very comfortable with that. Then in qualifying I could push and I did a quick lap for pole position, but then I tried to do an even quicker one and it was too much."
"I just carried too much speed into the corner. Just too much."
"Of course. If I didn't think I could get it then I wouldn't have come."
"A lot really. It is such a big race and it is very important for me. I am very happy to be on pole position and I just want to keep this feeling for the moment."
"Yes it is a very nice track, with big straights and challenging corners. It is really good."
"Well we have the warm-up to check things over and I think it should be no problem. But I know the start of the race is going to be very difficult with the slipstream from the big straight down to Lisboa. But I think after that it is just a normal race and you should be able to keep your position."
"Quite a lot because this year we haven't been so good in the Euroseries championship, so this race is really important. A good race in a big race is always okay."
"I don't know yet. I just want to finish the race and then we will see what happens."
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